The Lely Campus is located in Maassluis, the Netherlands. Since the opening of the first phase of the Lely Campus in 2014, production and head office have been brought together again under one roof with the second phase expansion. Sustainability and innovation were the guiding design principles.
Just like the interior for the first phase of the campus, Doepel Strijkers has now also designed the interior for the second phase. This has created a 22,500 m2 industrial hall with more than 20,000 m2 of office interior for both phases, including related functions such as the company restaurant.
The entire building is BREAAM certified, making it one of the most sustainable office buildings in Europe. Moreover, it is a 'SMART' building. Many sensors collect data about the use of the building, which helps to manage the building efficiently.
About 1,350 employees now work at the Lely Campus. So above all, the building had to become a 'great place to work' where the focus is on meeting colleagues. All kinds of facilities have been created for this purpose, such as a wide variety of meeting rooms, individual workplaces, but also a healthy catering concept and a 250m2 gym.
Work Smarter!
Lely's new building required a solution that is in line with a changing time in which, partly due to Corona, the design of the workplace requires different conditions. This recent experience in which working from home became necessary provides insights that form the basis for the interior concept for the new building. In addition, work processes have changed and, supported by technology, we can work even better and more efficiently.
The interior offers a 'Work smarter' environment aimed at maximum support of the employee in his working environment. A physical environment has been created that is organized in such a way that the required facilities and types of spaces optimally support the employee's work processes. The building offers space for concentration and facilitates and encourages meetings and collaboration.
The heart of the building for relaxation, games and meetings
In the heart of the building, at the transition between the existing building and the new construction, there are communal areas such as the restaurant and the fitness room, as well as areas where you can meet your colleagues. Here, meeting colleagues is facilitated by physical game components and digital options to play a game together or create digital presentations together or show them to each other. A kind of large living room for optimal interaction. The meeting rooms for planned meetings are also located in the heart of the building. Of course, it is well equipped with the necessary facilities for videoconferencing.
Concentration, collaboration and conversation
The office floors are located adjacent to the heart of the building.
The office floor offers a variety of different types of workspaces. The employee chooses a workspace that best supports this work, appropriate to the planned activity. Employees therefore do not have a fixed workplace.
In addition to the regular workplaces, which are formed in a small team setting, the workplace also offers so-called creative zones where you can work concentrated in a different environment. There are also numerous places to relax and take a break and spontaneous, unplanned informal discussions are widely facilitated in the immediate vicinity of the workplace. This is supplemented with single-person quiet areas where short digital meetings can be held or a telephone conversation can be had.
The office floors offer a maximum mix of different types of places for working, meetings and social interaction. Because these places are cleverly positioned in relation to each other, you can work undisturbed in the work zone on one side of the floor and feel free to have a conversation with your colleagues on the other side. Discussion rooms for unplanned meetings have been placed as a buffer between the 'working' and 'social interaction' zones. These are sound insulated so that meetings can take place undisturbed and without disturbing you. These different zones are designed in such a way that a barcode of objects on the floor is readable. This barcode consists of large wooden objects that have various functions such as a pantry, call boxes, sofa, cloakroom, lockers and storage space. Glass walls have been placed between these objects to create discussion areas in such a way that an optimal relationship with the surrounding landscape is maintained.
